[libvirt] [PATCH] qemuDomainSendKey: Relax the qemu driver locking

Viktor Mihajlovski mihajlov at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jan 24 12:17:35 UTC 2013


On 01/24/2013 11:45 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>
> Yes, that's another candidate.
> Basically for now, everything that uses qemu driver other than:
> - domain lookup
> - begin/end job
> - enter/exit monitor
> SHOULD be using long term lock. This, however, will soon be past - I
> believe I saw an e-mail from Dan saying, qemu driver locking should be
> turned into R/W locks.
>
> Michal
>
Sounds reasonable. Knowing that this is *some* work, wouldn't it make
sense to relax the locking for all eligible qemu_driver functions in
one patch?
This would then be a tangible feature of 1.0.2.

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